作者: M Alan Brookhart , Jeremy A. Rassen , Philip S. Wang , Colin Dormuth , Helen Mogun
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0B013E318070C057
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摘要: Background:Postmarketing studies of prescription drugs are challenging because prognostic variables that determine treatment choices often unmeasured. In this setting, instrumental variable (IV) methods exploit differences in prescribing patterns between physicians may be used to estimate t